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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 



Chap. Copyright No. 

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 




C.pini-i^iht. l.SiC. 
By Van Lawn ,t Miioskv 



EUGENE 
FIELD 



An Auto=Analysis 

Kow One JrUt met tfte 
Bewil ana tm Pursuea 



Published by H. M. Caldwell 
Co., New York and Boston 
Nineteen Hundred and One 



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Boston, Mass., U. S. A. 



I'T^HE time is coming when Etigene Field will 
be gossiped about as is Charles Lamb* 

— George W, Gible* 



INTRODUCTORY NOTE 




,HE late Eu§:cn6 Field 
first exhibited his 
unique vein of humour 
in ^'The Tribune 
Primer,^ a collection of 
satirical paragraphs 
written ostensibly for 
children^ though of course, in reality, 
for their elders, and originally issued in 
the columns of the Denver Tribune, of 
which the author was then (t882) editor* 
Later in the same year appeared from 
the press of Fred Tredwell, in Brooklyn, 
''The Model Primer,'' made up of selec- 
tions from the former book and illus- 
trated by Hoppin, Both of these editions 
are now extremely rare, and command 
handsome prices from collectors* 

A number of other early or little 
known writings of Field, which have 
been printed hitherto in limited or costly 

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editions, are beingf gfr adaally brought out 
in a form which is both attractive to the 
fastidious bookman and also within the 
reach of the averagfe buyer» To this class 
belong the two items issued in the present 
volume, neither of which has ever been 
included in any edition of Field^s works* 
They are exact reproductions of the 
limited editions issued by Mn Frank 
Morris of the Old Book Shop in Chi- 
cago, a favourite resort of Field and his 
literary friends, and the scene of some of 
his most celebrated pranks and practical 
Jokes* 

''An Auto- Analysis '^ was written in 
response to the requests for biographical 
facts which the poet was constantly re- 
ceiving, and was printed as a four-page 
leaflet* 

** The Story of Two Friars '^ was first 
issued in the Chicago Record, and created 
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a gffeat deal of attention. It was an 
open secret that Friar Gonsol and Friar 
Francis stood respectively for the Rev. 
Frank W. Gunsaultis and the Rev* Frank 
M. Bristol, two well-known Chicago di- 
vines and bibliomaniacs who were close 
friends of Field. Like the latter, both of 
these gentlemen were members of the 
literary set which frequented the Old 
Book Shop and McClurg^s famous Saint 
and Sinner^s Corner, and their 
penchant for early editions 
is admirably taken off 
in this witty and 
good-natured 
sketch. 



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INTRODUCTION 



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S EUGENE FIELD 
rose in literary im- 
'iy portance he was so 
•^ importuned by peo- 
ple for autographs, 
sentiments, verses of 
his poems, for the poems them- 
selves, for scraps of information of 
whatever nature concerning him- 
self, that in 1894 he had printed 
a four-page pamphlet setting forth 
most of the facts of his career up 
to date* 

This curious but most interest- 
ing document also gave a truthful 
and vivid description of his personal 
appearance, his tastes and distastes, 
and tells, too, of his favourite authors 

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and composers^ actor and actress; 
his dislike of politics and his hatred 
for war and opposition to capital 
punishment; his fear to indulge him- 
self from pecuniary considerations, 
in a growing taste for sculpture and 
painting, and, curious statement, for 
Field was rhythmic to his finger tips, 
his limited love of music. 

He analyses his feeling for chil- 
dren, a most interesting proceeding 
from one who has written such 
beautiful love songs of childhood, 
and tells us that they interested 
him only so far as he found he 
could make pets of them — the 
fact being that nobody^s babes in- 
terested him, naturally, so much as 

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his own^ with a goodly number 

of which Dame Nature and 

Mrs. Field had not 

failed to supply 

him. 



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^E would have the priv- 
ilege of franchise ex- 
tended to all women 
and recalls with pride 
that in nearly a quar- 
ter of a century he 
had written in reverential praise of 
womankind. 

He gives us a chronological list 
of his publications which is incor- 
rect in the particular that it omits 
the name of the book issued in J 89 1 
— Echoes from the Sabine Farm — 
which issue antedated the McQurg 
publication nearly two years. 

Though written with a smile, 
this auto-analysis of Field's conies 
strikingly near the truth. 

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Confessedly careless in dress — 
matters of the mind and heart be- 
ing of greater importance to him 
— Field was rather methodical than 
otherwise in all other relations of life* 

He had a just appreciation of the 
letters and of bits of manuscript 
material of people who were emi- 
nent or who were likely to arrive 
at distinction in the world, and he 
constantly impressed upon friends 
and acquaintances the importance 
of preserving all such data* 

I never saw him but he would 
question me as to any interview 
or association I had with Edwin 
Booth, Lawrence Barrett, Sir Henry 
Irving, Joseph Jefferson, W. H* 

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Crane, Stuart Robson, or any fel- 
low player who had attained celeb- 
rity, and would be most solicitous 
as to .whether I had written down 
my remembrances and impressions 
of the men and the occasions* 

He thought it little less than 
criminal to neglect an opportunity 
to record what might ultimately 
prove of exceeding interest* 

Out of this feeling came the Auto- 
Analysis* It was no unusual vanity 
that prompted Field to write iU Mr* 
Joseph Jefferson once said to me that 
all clever men knew they were clever* 
Vanity did not consist in knowing 
one^s cleverness, but in parading it* 



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O FIELD felt. He 
knew that if the 
world took an inter- 
est in him^ and it 
unquestionably d i d, 
it would want facts 
concerning him^ and he determined 
the world should receive them at 
first hand — from himseE 

This, as I believe, was the real 
reason he issued the Auto-Analysis, 
and, beside exemplifying Field's 
forethought and methodicalness, it 
served his stated purpose to **give 
these facts, confessions, and observa- 
tions for the information of those 
who, for one reason or another, 
are constantly applying to me for 

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biographical data concerning my- 
self/^ 

Of Field's first publication, The 
Tribune Primer, Denver, 1882, he 
has written on the fly-leaf of one of 
the books, that the whole number 
printed did not exceed fifty. It is 
the scarcest of his publications. I 
can see the smile in his eye and 
the smirk on his lip as he wrote 
with respect to the book that it was 
*^ VztYf very scarce/' 

The Model Primer, which was 
printed by Tredwell of Brooklyn 
and cleverly illustrated by Hop- 
pin, is also much sought for by 
collectors and commands a good 
price. 

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It was something of an annoy- 
ance to Field that neither this nor 
his subsequent publication, 
Culture's Garland, ever 
yielded satisfactory 
monetary re- 
turns. 



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I HERE were also six 
uncut issues of Cul- 
ture's Garland* In 
his own copy he^ in 
verse, humourously 
deplores having 
written the book* It is composed 
of Field's newspaper articles of a 
satirical and humourous character* 
Julian Hawthorne wrote the intro- 
duction. 

The Echoes from the Sabine 
Farm was first privately printed by 
the writer of these lines in I89L 
One hundred copies only were 
made — thirty on Japan and seventy 
on hand-made paper* The initials 
were illuminated throughout and 



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there was a vignette headpiece to 
each poem. E. H. Garrett did the 
drawing, and W. H. W. Bicknell 
the etched title-page. For each of 
the Japan paper copies Eugene Field 
and his brother Roswell M. Field 
wrote autograph poems. 

Field often promised his friend, 
Frank M. Morris, that he would 
write an introduction to this Auto- 
Analysis, and that Morris should 
publish the whole matter, not so 
much as an evidence of regard as 
a manifestation of good faith on 
Field's part* But along with his 
proposed Life of Horace, which 
never fructified, went his intentions 
with regard not only to the intro- 

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duction but a host of other projects 

of a literary nature never, alas ! to 

see the light. 

FRANCIS WILSON- 



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EUGENE FIELD 



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WAS born in St» Louis, 
Missouri, September 
3d, J 850, the second, 
and oldest surviving, 
son of Roswell Martin 
and Frances (Reed) 
Field, both natives of 
Windham County, 
Vermont. 

Upon the death of 
my mother (1856) I 
was put in the care of 
my (paternal) cousin. 
Miss Mary Field 
French, at Amherst, 
Massachusetts* 

In 1865, I entered 
the Private School of 

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Rev- James Tufts, Monson, Mas- 
sachusetts, and there fitted for 
Williams College, which 
institution I entered 
as a freshman 
in 1868- 



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PON my father's 
death, in 1869, I en- 
tered the sophomore 
class of Knox Col- 
lege, Galesburg, Illi- 
nois, my guardian, 
John W* Burgess, now of Columbia 
College, being then a professor in 
that institution^ 

But in 1870 I went to Columbia, 
Missouri, and entered the State 
University there, and completed my 
junior year with my brother. 

In 1872, I visited Europe, spend- 
ing six months and my patrimony 
in France, Italy, Ireland, and Eng- 
land. 

In May, J 873, 1 became a reporter 

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on the St^ Louis Evening Journal 
In October of that year I married 
Miss Julia Sutherland Comstock 
(born in Chenango County, New 
York) of St» Joseph, Missouri, at 
that time a girl of sixteen* 
We have had eight chil- 
dren — three daugh- 
ters and five 
sons. 



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J^ Y newspaper connec- 
tions have been as 
follows: J875-76, 
city editor of the 
St. Joseph, Missouri, 
Gazette; 1876-80, 
editorial writer on the St» Louis 
Journal and St* Louis Times-Jour- 
nal; J 880-8 1, managing editor of 
the Kansas City Times; I88J-83, 
managing editor of the Denver 
Tribune* 

Since J 883 I have been a con- 
tributor to the Chicago Record 
(formerly Morning News)* 

I wrote and published my first 
bit of verse in 1879; it was entitled 
*' Christmas Treasures ^^ (see Little 



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Book of Western Verse). Just ten 
years later I began suddenly to 
write verse very frequently ; mean- 
while (1883-89), I had laboured 
diligently at writing short stories 
and tales* 

Most of these I revised half a dozen 

times. One (The Were- Wolf), 

as yet unpublished, I have 

re-written eight times 

during the last 

eight years. 



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Y publications have 
been, chronologi- 
cally, as follows: 

t. The Tribune 
Primer; Denver, 
1882. (Out of print, 
very scarce.) (The Model Primer ; 
illustrated by Hoppin; Tredwell, 
Brooklyn, J 882. A Pirate edi- 
tion») 

2. Culture^s Garland; Ticknor, 
Boston, 1887. (Out of print.) 

A Little Book of Western Verse ; 
Chicago, 1892. (Large paper, pri- 
vately printed and limited.) 

A Little Book of Profitable Tales ; 
Chicago, 1889. (Large paper, pri- 
vately printed and limited.) 

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LITTLE Book 
of Western Verse; 
^ Scribners^ New 
York, 189a 

4. A Little Book 
of Profitable Tales; 
Scribners, New York, J 890. 

5. With Trumpet and Drum; 
Scribners, New York, J892» 

6* Second Book of Verse ; Scrib- 
ners, New York, 1893. 

7. Echoes from The Sabine 
Farm. Translations of Horace; 
McCIurg, Chicago, 1893. (In col- 
laboration with my brother, Ros- 
well Martin Field.) 

8. Introduction to Stone's First 



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Editions of American Authors; 
Cambridge, 1&93. 

9. The Holy Cross and other 
Tales; Stone and Kimball, Cam- 
bridge, 1893- 

III health compelled me to visit 

Europe in J 889; there I remained 

fourteen months, that time 

being divided between 

England, Germany, 

Holland and 

Belgium. 



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Y residence at present 
is in Buena Park, a 
north shore suburb 
of Chicago^ 

I have a miscel- 
laneous collection of 
books numbering 3,500, and I am 
fond of the quaint and curious in 
every line. I am very fond of dogs, 
birds, and all small pets — a passion 
not approved of by my wife. My 
favourite flower is the carnation, 
and I adore dolls. My favourite 
hymn is ^^ Bounding Billows.^^ 
My favourites in fiction are Haw- 
thorne's ''Scarlet Letter,'' ''Don 
Quixote," and "Pilgrim's Prog- 



ress. 



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GREATLY love 
Hans Christian An- 
dersen's Tales, and I 
am deeply interested 
in folklore and fairy 
tales^ I believe in 
ghosts, in witches, and in fairies. I 
should like to own a big astronomical 
telescope, and a 24-tune music box. 
My heroes in history are Martin 
Luther, Mme. Lamballe, Abraham 
Lincoln; my favourite poems are 
Korner's ^* Battle Prayer,'^ Words- 
worth's'^ We are Seven,'' Newman's 
''Lead, Kindly Light," Luther's 
Hymn, Schiller's ''The Diver," Hor- 
ace's " Fons Bandusiae," and Burns' 
Cottar's Saturday Night." 

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DISLIKE Dante and 
Byron. I should like 
to have known Jere- 
miah the prophet, 
old man Poggio, 
Horace, Walter 
Scott, Bonaparte, Hawthorne, Mme. 
Sontag, Sir John Herschel, Hans 
Andersen. My favourite actor is 
Henry Irving; actress, Mme. 
Modjeska. I dislike '' Politics '^ so 
called. I should like to have the 
privilege of voting extended to 
women. I am unalterably opposed 
to capital punishment. I favour a 
system of pensions for noble ser- 
vices in literature, art, science, etc. 
I approve of compulsory education. 

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F I had my way, I 
should make the 
abuse of horses, dogs, 
and cattle a penal of- 
fence ; I should abol- 
ish all dog-laws and 
dog-catchers, and I would punish 
severely everybody who caught 
and caged birds* I dislike all exer- 
cise and I play all games very in- 
differently. I love to read in bed. 

I believe in churches and schools ; 
I hate wars, armies, soldiers, guns, 
and fireworks. 

I like music (limited)^ 
I have been a great theatre-goer* 
I enjoy the society of doctors and 
clergymen. 

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Y favourite colour is 
red« 

I do not care par- 
ticularly for sculpture 
or for paintings; I 
try not to become in- 
terested in them, for the reason that 
if I were to cultivate a taste for them 
I should presently become hopelessly 
bankrupt. 

I am extravagantly fond of per- 
fumes. 

I am a poor diner, and I drink no 
wine or spirits of any kind ; I do not 
smoke tobacco. 

I dislike crowds and I abominate 
functions. 

I am six feet in height; am of 

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spare build, weigh 160 pounds, and 
have shocking taste in dress. 

But I like to have well-dressed 
people about me. 

My eyes are blue, my complexion 
pale, my face is shaven, and I incline 
to baldness. 

It is only when I look and see how 

young and fair and sweet my 

wife is that I have a 

good opinion of 

myself. 



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AM fond of the com- 
panionship of women, 
and I have no un- 
conquerable prejudice 
against feminine 
beauty. I recall with 
pride that in twenty-two years of 
active journalism I have always 
written in reverential praise of 
womankind. I favour early mar- 
riage. I do not love all children. 

I have tried to analyse my feel- 
ings toward children, and I think I 
discover that I love them in so far 
as I can make pets of them. 

I believe that, if I live, I shall do 
my best literary work when I am a 
grandfather. 

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I give these facts, confessions and 

observations for the information 

of those who, for one reason 

or another, are applying 

constantly to me for 

biographical data 

concerning 

myseE 



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How one friar met tbe Devil 
two Pursued l)im 




Stors of tbe 2wo if riars* 

Z, kfell !n tbe ^ear 1662^ fn V9bfcb 
same ijear v;ere man^witcbcrafts 
and sorceries^ sucb as never l)es» 
Tore bad teen seen and tbe lihe of \^bicb vvUl 
never a^aln, by ^race of beaven, afflict man» 
hind^in tbis ^ar It befell tbat tbe devil cante 
upon eartb to tempt an boly f riar, named friar 
(Bonsol, being strictly minded to win tbat 
rigbteous vessel of piety unto bis evil plea^ 
sance^ 



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OM K^U $ou i^ell tbat tb!8 friar baa 
grievously oltenaea tbe aevll, for of 
all men tben on eartb tbere ^as none more 
bolier tban be nor none ssrer to speab and to 
do sweet cbarlt^ unto all bis fellows In ever^ 
place* Sberefore It was tbat tbe devil was 
sore wrotb at th^ friar (Bonsol, being mlgbts 
11$ plaped not onl$ b$ bis teacblngs and bis 
preacblngs^ but also bp tbe pious worits wblcb 
be continually did do. ^Igbt trulp tbe devil 
Unew tbat b$ no common temptations was tbls 
friar to be moved^ for tbe wblcb reason did 
tbe devil seek In darft and troublous coglta^ 
tlons to betbink blm of some new Instrument 
wberewltb be mlgbt bedazzle tbe e^s and en^s 
snare tbe understanding of tbe bol3^ man* On 
a sudden It came unto tbe fiend tbat bsi no 
corporeal allurement would be be able to 



acbkve bis miserable end, for tbat b$ reason 
of an abstentious life ana a frugal diet tbe 
friar (Bonsol bad v^eaned bis bod$ from tbose 
frailties and lusts to v^bicb buman f lesb is 
bjp nature of tbe old ^dam ^itbin it disposed, 
and by long^^continued vigils and b^^ earnest 
devotions and by godly contemplations and 
by divers proper studies bad fixed bis mind 
and bis soul v^itb exceeding steadfastness 
upon tbings unto bis eternal spiritual i^elfare 
appertaining. Sberef ore it belihed tbe devil 
to devise and to compound a certain little 
boolte of migbty curious craft, i^bereiwitb be 
migbt be like to please tbe friar 6onsol and, 
in tbe end, to ensnare bim in bis impious 
toils. 1H0V9 tbis was tbe way of tbe devil's 
tbinking, to wit: dbis friar sball suspect no 
evil in tbe booke, since never before batb tbe 



devH tempted tnanhlnd ^itb sucb an fitstru^ 
fiient, tbe cotntnon tbln^s ^bere^itb tbe devil 
temptetb man Mm (as all bistories sbov^ 
and all tbeologles teacb) fruit and ^onten 
and otber lihe tbin^s pleasind to tbe ^ross 
and Derlsbable senses* Clberefore^ arpetb 
tbe devil, v^ben H sball tentpt tbis friar iwitb 
a booUe be sball be ta^en off bis pard and 
sball not bnov^ it to be a temptation* MCi 
tbereat v^as tbe devil exceeding merry and be 
did laugb full merrily* 



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E^ M presently caie tb!s tbing of evil 

JHyj unto tbe friar in tbe pise of anotber 

friar and made a ;)roper low obeisance unto 

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tbe satne« :i^ut tbe friar (Bottsol iwas not 
Minded to tbe craft of tbe devils for front un^: 
der tbe cloaD and bood tbat be wore tbere did 
issue tbe smell of sulpbur and of brimstone 
wbicb alone tbe devil batb* 

^* jiesbrew me/' potb tbe friar (Bonsol, 
^Mf tbe odour in my nostrils be spikenard 
and not tbe fumes of tbe bottomless pit!'' 

^'iHay, sweet friar/* spalie tbe devil full 
courteously?, '^tbe fragrance tbou perceivest 
Is of frankincense and myrrb, for H am of 
boly orders and 1I bave brou^bt tbee a riabt'> 
eous boolie> delectable to looh upon and prof it« 
able unto tbe reading/' 

ZM were tbe ej^es of tbat friar (Bonsol 
full of brigbt spariilings and bis beart res 
joiced witb exceeding los, for be did set 
most store, next to bis spiritual welfare, bj? 

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^oobes v^bereln ^as fooa to bis lieneficlal 
devouring. 

*'1I ao redttlre tbee/' Quotb tbe trlar^ *Mo 
sbew ttte tbat I^ooiie tbat H map Sinow tbe name 
tbereof and discover v^bereof it treatetb/' 



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IMIB sbewed tbe devil tbe boohe unto 
tbe friar^ and tbe friar saw tbat It 
iwas an uncut unique of incalculable value; 
tbe beigbt of ft ms balf a cubit and tbe 
breadtb of it tbe f ourtb part of a cuMt and tbe 
tbictiness of it five barleKcrns lacking tbe 
space of tbree borsebairs* Clbis booke con^ 
tained, witbin its divers picturings^ ss^mbols 
and similitudes v^rougbt i^itb Incomparable 

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craft, tbe same U\n sucb as in buman vanWv 
are called proot betore letters, and Imprinted 
Hpctt flndia pper; also tbe boofte contained 
written upon Us pages divers names of tbem 
tbat bad possessed It, all tbese bavlng In tbelr 
time been mlgbt^ and Ulustrlous personages; 
but \iM seemed most delectable unto tbe 
triar v^as an autograpblc i^rltlng v?bereln 
'twas sbev^n tbat tbe boohe sometime bad 
been given by IDenus dl /ifiedlci to Japollos at 
Iftbodes* 



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IfttlB tberetore tbe jfrlar 6onsol sai» 

tbe booHe bov* tbat It v^as Intituled 

and Imprinted and adorned and bounden, be 

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Mx9 U to De of vast ^ortb mi U ^m 
m\M\S movea to |)o$ses8 It; tberefore be 
replred of tbe otber (tbat v^as tbe devil) tbat 
be give unto bfm an option upon tbe same for 
tbe space of seven aavs bence or until sucb a 
time as be could Inpire concerning tbe boohe 
in Eo^ndes and otber sucb liEie autborities« 
Mi tbe devils smiling^ potb: ^^Sbe booUe 
sball be ^ours i;^itbout price provided onl^ ^ou 
sball bind yourself to do me a service as if 
sball bereafter specify and direct/' 



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OH v^ben tbe friar (Bonsol beard tbis 
compact be Sinew for a verity tbat tbe 
levil v^as Indeed tbe devils and but tbat be 

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sorelj^ muM tbe toohe be mM bave driven 
tbat itnpious fiend straigbtway front bis pres^ 
ence« lowbelt^ tbe devil> promising to visit 
bint a^ain tbat nigbt^ departed^ leaving tbe 
friar exceeding beavy in spirit^ for be iwas 
botb assotted upon tbe booke to contprebend 
It and assotted upon tbe devil to do violence 
unto bim« 



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S befell tbat in bis doubtin^s be came 
unto tbe jfriar jfrancis^ anotber bolv 
man tbat bj» continual fastings and devotions 
bad made bimself an ensample of piety unto 
all men, and to tbis sanctified brotber did 
tbe irriar (Bonsol straigbt^aj^ unfold tbe 

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stor^ of bis temptation and speab f ull$ of 
tbe wondrous Doolie and of its divers ricb^ 
nesses. 







|'fe£1R tbat be bad beard tbis narration 
tbe ifriar f rancls made answer In 
tbfs wise: ^^Of great snbtllftj? surely Is ttt 
devil tbat be batb set tbis snare for tby feet. 
IBave a care, m^ Drotber, tbat tbou fallest 
not Into tbe pit wbicb be batb digged for 
tbee! 1bnm ^^ tbou to bave come to me 
witb tbis tblng, elsewise a great miscbief 
migbt bave befallen tbee. low listen to m$ 
words and do as f counsel tbee. tbave no 
more to do witb tbis devil; send bim to me, 

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or appoint ^Itb b!m anotber meeting and H 
\9\[\ fio in tby steads'* 

**mh ms/* cried tbe friar (Bonsol, *Hk 
saints f oref end from tbee tbe evil temptation 
provided for m^ especial proving ! H sbould 
ken reckoned a v^eals and coward vessel mn 
H to send tbee in m^ stead to bear tbe mortis 
f ications designed for tbe trj^ins of m^ vir8> 
tues^^' 

**1Bnt tbou art a jjounger brotber tban V* 
reasoned tbe friar francis^ softly; *^and, 
firm tbouab tb^ resolution may be now^ tbou 
art more lifte tban H to be \vbeedled and be« 
dazzled by tbese diabolical voiles and artif ices« 
So let me hnow wbere tbis devil abidetb 
v^itb tbe boolie; H burn to meet bim and 
to v^rest tbe treasure from bis impious pos« 
session/^ 

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:fBut tbe friar 6onsol sbook Ms beaa and 
wouia not bear unto tbls vicarious sacritlce 
v^bercon tbe good friar f rands bad set bis 

beart* 
^^M, H see tbat tbou bast little faitb In 

ms strengtb to combat tbe fiend/' quotb tbe 

friar f rands, reproacbtullj?* **Sb3? trust 

m me sbould be greater, tor H bave done tbee 

full manj) a felndlj) office; or, now 1I do be^ 

tblnii me, tbou art assotted on tbe boofeel 

umm 5)rotber, can it be tbat tbou dost so 

covet tbls vain toy, tbls frivolous bauble, 

tbat tbou v^ouldst seeft tbe devirs com* 

pnlonsblp anon to compound v?itb IBeelze-s 

bubl II cbarse tbee, Srotber 6onsol, open 

tblne eves and see in ^bat a sUpper^p place 

tbou standest/' 

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1Rot9 by tbese argumentations ivas tbc 
jfriar 6onsol mIdbtUy confounaed^ ana be 
linew not v^bat to do* 

<^Come, now, besUate no longer/' potb 
tbe jfrlar ffrands, ^^but tell me i^bere tbat 
aevll may be founds^^H burn to see ana to 
comprebena tbe boohes«not tbat 11 care Tor 
tbe boolie, but tbat II am grievously torment* 
ea to ao tbat aevll a sore aesplgbt! *' 

<<oaas boaaifelns/' quoa tbeotber triar, 
^^meseemetb tbat tbe boofte incitetb tbee more 
tban tbe MV 

'^Cbou speaftest wrongly/' criea tbe jfrlar 
3f rands* ^'2bou mlstahest pious zeal for 
sinful self Isbness* full wrotb am 11 to bear 
bow tbat tbls aevll v^alketb to ana fro, using a 
sv^eet ana precious booke for tbe temptation 
of boly men* Sball so rlgbteous an instru* 

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tnent De emploK^I ^S tbe prince of beretfcs to 
sounrigbteousanend?'' 

*^Sbou safest \iM%'' quotb tbe jfriar 
(Bonsol^ ^^and tb$ words convince me tbat a 
battalle must be made wUb tbls devil for tbat 
booUe* So now H sball go to encounter tbe 
fiend !^^ 

''Sben by tbe saints If sball go witb 
tbee!*' cried tbe friar francis^and be gatb* 
ered bis down about bis loins rigbt brisbly* 







M wben tbe friar (Bonsol saw tbis 
be made great baste to go alone> and 
be ran out of tbe door full swiftly and fared 
bim wbere tbe devil bad appointed an appoint^ 

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meirt wltb Blnu low i»tt 3?ou well tbat tfie 
Ifiiar francis aid follow close upon Ms beeis, 
for tbouato bis legs were not so long be was 
a migbt^ runner ana be was rlfibt souna o! 
wind* Cberetore was it a pleasant sifibt to 
see tbese bolv men v^ing wUb one anotber to 
ao battle wltb tbe clevil> ana mucb it repent^ 
etb me tbat tbere be some ribaia beretics tbat 
maintain full enviously tbat tbese two saintly? 
triars m so run not for tbe aevil tbat tbe^^ 
migbt belabor bim, but tor tbe booUe tbat \m 
migbt possess it* 



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IS tortunea tbat tbe aevil was alreaai^ 
I come to tbe place wbere be baa aps> 
pointea tbe appointments ana in bis bana be 

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M tk book foresail MM mnmM be 

\9M tbat be bebeia tbe tv^o friars faring 
tbence* 

**1I adjure tbee, tboM devil/' said tbe iff iar 
6ottsol from afar off, ^'t adjure tkt give 
me tbat book else H v^lU take tbee bp tbj? 
borns and boof s and drub tbj^ ribs togetber ! *' 

^^iBeed blm not, tboji devil/' said tbe ffrlar 
frands, **for ft Is f tbat am coming to 
i^restle v^ltb tbee and to overcome tbee for 
tbat booker' 

mtb sncb v^ords and man$ more tbe tV9o 
boly friars bore dovvn upon tbe devil; but tbe 
devil tblnbing verily tbat be m$ about to be 
beset hs tbe ^bole cburcb militant staged not 
for tbelr coming, but presently departed out 
of sigbt and bore tbe bool^e vt;ltb blm* 

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■m mms people at tbat time saw m 
aevfl f leeins Del ore tbe two friars, so 
tbat, esteeming it to ^e a sign of special 
grace, tbese people m ever tbereafter ac» 
ftnowledfie tbe friars to be saints, ana unto 
tbis daj? yon sball bear of St. $onsol ana St* 
f rands* Onto tbIs da^, too, aotb tbe aevll, 
witb tbat same boohe wberewltb be tentptea 
tbe friar of oia, beset ana ensnare men of 
mry m ana in all places* ja0a!nst wblcb 
aevll my beaven fortify us to ao battle 
speeailj? ana witb successful Issuance* 




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IRoU: tradition batb n tbat tbe tmUlm 
mre lRev« f* m. (Bunsaulus and 1Rev« f* il&« 
SrfstoL Sut tradition maj^ not alwaj^s be 
trusted* 



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